Is sharing the new creativity? I don’t think so
Felix Salmon, who normally is really very smart, had a line in a recent post about sharing and the rise of Tumblr that's been stuck in my throat:
FarmVille: As cool, and as social, as writing chain letters
Benjamin Jackson, a New York-based game designer and writer, has a terrific essay in The Atlantic arguing that "too many video games treat players like rats in a
Different animals playing with iPads: The video you’ve been waiting for
Kind of peripheral to my project, but still, hilarious. (It's even funnier than the "Baby Thinks a Magazine is an iPad That Doesn't Work.")
“What really changed my life was my decision to write every day”
Heather Donohue, who by an absolute cosmic law must be referred to as the star of the Blair Witch Project, has a new book out about her leaving
“Conscious experience is neither ‘Nothing But’ brain activity nor ‘Something Else as Well'”
Came across this article by Michael Silberstein and Anthony Chemero in the course of re-reading a recent experiment on Heidegger's concept of ready-to-hand: "Complexity and Extended Phenomenological-Cognitive Systems"
“I would rather people talk about the books than how I publish them”
The Guardian recently had a profile of self-publishing success Amanda Hocking, who writes novels incredibly quickly, then self-publishes them on Amazon. While she's managed to become a phenom
“Technology… is only a magnifier of human intent and capacity. It is not a substitute.”
From Kentaro Toyama's article in the Boston Review: Technology—no matter how well designed—is only a magnifier of human intent and capacity. It is not a substitute. [via Morgan
OLPC and unsupported vs. supported learning
I recently read an interesting, critical article looking at the One Laptop Per Child program and its assumptions about computers and learning. Coauthors Mark Warschauer and Morgan Ames
Digitalnun on contemplative computing
Digitalnun, the prioress at Holy Trinity monastery just outside Oxford, write about contemplative computing: From time to time, someone asks how long I spend online. It is the
Encounter
Monday I was interviewed for the Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio show Encounter, which deals with contemporary religion and society. I talked about contemplative computing and spirituality. The show